Town Supervisor Kelly Myers and School Board President George Heidcamp went after each other ferociously in the letters pages of The Saugerties Times earlier this month.

Town Supervisor Kelly Myers and School Board President George Heidcamp went after each other ferociously in the letters pages of The Saugerties Times earlier this month.

To hear her tell it, Heidcamp had turned from her "best buddy" into someone who, in the name of enlisting her support in a dispute he had with a neighbor, began making harassing phone calls, taping conversations with her, "barging" into her office and sending no fewer than 168 emails to her, some in the dead of night. In the end, she said in her letter to the editor dated Jan. 3, she felt "stalked" by Heidcamp.

Heidcamp, responding the following week, said Myers was delusional, "paranoid" and "a liar." He said he did not attempt to enlist her support in his dispute with his neighbor. As for the emails, he said "Kelly Myers is an elected official and I am a private citizen — as such she works for me. I have all the right in the world to email her."

When Myers was asked to comment on the dispute, she said, "It's over. I won't comment." The dispute had not been resolved, Myers said, but she said she didn't want to inflame the situation any further.

When asked for comment, Heidcamp said "it wasn't a good time." When asked when would be a good time, he said "never."

Jeremiah Horrigan

In order to break the cycle of incarceration for America's prison population, Poughkeepsie resident Theo Harris says inmates need a lot of help in preparing for life on the outside.

When he recently spoke at a Woodstock event, the seven-time convicted felon explained how, for instance, he had to resist the impulse to shoplift soon after his release. "I went to ShopRite and I was shopping wrong," said Harris, 63. "I was picking things out like I was in the prison commissary."

Harris was a key speaker at the 23rd Annual Birthday Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 20 at the Woodstock Community Center.

These days, Harris counsels inmates through the Prison Partnership of the Hudson River Presbytery. His own experiences with drug abuse and incarceration are detailed in his new autobiography, "Blessed and Highly Favored: Memoirs of a Multiple Felon."

Harris earned a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University and two master's degrees while in prison for drug-related offenses. He currently lives in Poughkeepsie with his wife, Phyllis.

Pauline Liu

The Marlborough Police Department Explorer Post 1650 recently had its first defensive tactics training class at the Town of Marlborough Volunteer Ambulance Corps, under the tutelage of veteran police officer and martial artist Keith Lipsey.

Exploring — a Boy Scouts of America program — returned to Marlborough after a seven-year hiatus. Forinformation, call police at 795-2181.

Michael Randall

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